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Online learning is going to be used more and more in education. It seems to have started in colleges and universities and is trickling down to even our youngest elementary students.

There are many benefits of using online learning in the elementary classroom. After using Schoology, I began to think of all of the different ways that I could begin using online learning outside of the classroom. The actual course that I created could be used as a trial for our third and fourth graders. With further reading after creating the course, there are several things I would change such as, allowing options for end products, changing the time line, and setting specific online meeting times. As a future technology facilitator I would first create an online course for our GT students to enroll in for the summer. There would be several choices for students 1-5 to create an end product displaying the solution to an higher order problem within the city. Resources would be provided for students to research and discover possible solutions. This would allow me the time to analyze feedback and end products over the summer in order to perfect a class for the school year. I am still looking into how online learning could be used as an actual content course rather than an enrichment program with our elementary school students?
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There was no interactions with colleagues. Students did take a Learning Styles assessment. It was interesting to find that most of my students were auditory learners rather than visual learners as I had first suspected.